Howard Gardner was recently interviewed on Work Healthy, a podcast hosted by John Ryan that aims to provide “access to the world of healthy workplaces, digging deep to uncover the practices and approaches used by organizations worldwide in their attempts to rewrite the rules of the workplace as we know it.”
In this episode titled “Rethinking Intelligence,” Gardner discusses his theory of multiple intelligences, the value of unlearning and relearning, and what it means to foster a synthesizing mind.
“Synthesizing takes time,” he says. “And if I can make any educational contribution going forward, I would like teachers—and that doesn’t just mean teachers at school, I mean teachers at home, your parents, your family, teachers in the workplace, your managers, your boss, your colleagues—to try to help people develop better capacities for synthesis.”
Gardner also reflects on criticism of past work and addresses social media’s impact on the younger generation, ethical decisions and implications in education, AI and machine-learning, and influential voices in the past millennium.
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